Actress Brooke Shields has apparently angered her neighbours due to the renovation work at her New York home.
The star has commissioned extensive changes to be made to her $5.6 million home in the city's West Village area, but builders are said to be making so much noise and mess, other residents are threatening to move out, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
"They start construction at 6 a.m. every morning, and people are outraged. This has been going on for months, and people in surrounding buildings are threatening their property managers that they'll move out if it doesn't stop," said a neigbhour.
The tenant added that complaints to construction workers have been dismissed. A group of residents reportedly confronted the renovation team but were told: "If you have a problem, take it up with Brooke Shields."
The building management, which leases many local apartments, has refused to comment on the troubles reported by the residents. The neighbours have also complained that the renovation has caused the sidewalk near the star's home to be closed.
Despite the complaints, Shields has defended herself, saying she has a permit and the works are legal and are "up to code every step of the way". "They truly apologise about the noise or any inconvenience and hope more than anybody to have it finished as soon as possible," her representative said.
Hollywood actress Brooke Shields has revealed she wanted to take her own life when she first became a mother because she was suffering from severe post-natal depression.The actress who has two daughters, Rowan, six, and three-year-old Grier, with husband Chris Henchy suffered from severe post-natal depression and didn't think her life was worth carrying on with, reports femalefirst.co.uk."I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her and I couldn't sing to her and I couldn't smile at her... All I wanted to do was disappear and die," said the former model about Rowan's birth."I should not exist. The baby would be better off without me. Life was never going to get better - so I better just go," she added.Shields, 44, was given medication for her depression but stopped taking it, thinking she didn't need it, which resulted in almost fatal consequences."I almost did not resist driving my car straight into a wall on the side of the freeway. My baby was in the back seat and that even p****d me off because I thought she's even ruining this for me. I just wanted to drive into the wall and my friend stayed on the phone with me until I got home safely," she said.She later called her doctor to ask for more help, and was eventually diagnosed with a chemical imbalance."I learned what was going on inside my body and what was going on inside my brain. I learned I wasn't doing anything wrong to feel that way. That it was actually out of my control," she said.
The provocative nude photograph of 10-year-old Brooke Shields has been removed from the Tate exhibition, following a visit by the police.The picture by New York artist Richard Prince showing Shields standing naked in a bathtub, with a heavily made-up face and oiled torso had attracted the fury of child campaigners amid concerns it could be in breach of child pornography laws.They had described the photograph as a 'magnet' for paedophiles."The exhibit is temporarily closed. We are in discussions with police," the Telegraph quoted a spokesman as saying. The Tate chose to include the picture in the Pop Life: Art In A Material World after consulting lawyers.The controversial picture, called Spiritual America, was put in a separate room behind a closed door bearing a warning that the work was 'challenging'."Officers from the Obscene Publications Unit met with staff at the Tate Modern regarding an image,” a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.“The officers have specialist experience in this field and are keen to work with gallery management to ensure that they do not inadvertently break the law or cause any offence to their visitors," he added.
